During their residency at MIT, NODE Berlin Oslo and Bengler experimented with the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies CAVSS) Archive, maintained by the Program in Art, Culture, and Technology, using its source material as a subject and point of departure to develop a publishing concept that could unfold in the space of print and a physical domain as an exhibition.
In 2009, CAVS merged with the Visual Arts Program to form ACT. Bengler/NODE use the source material of the archive as a subject and point of departure to develop a publishing concept that could unfold in the space of print, physical domain, and digital domain as publication and exhibition.
In what follows I will take these less predictable responses as a point of departure, and develop a set of theses about the faith-based initiative idea.
What makes Simmons' novel so compelling is his daring to create a fictional character based on but as unique as Davis himself, just as jazz soloists use a standard tune as a point of departure to develop an improvised composition based on a melody.
Two years after his departure, he develops prostate cancer, and the operation leaves him in a condition hardly designed to encourage him to reënter society.
Two years after his departure, he develops prostate cancer, and the operation leaves him in a condition hardly designed to encourage him to re-enter society.
Taking the mismatched roofs as a point of departure, he developed the existing set of discordant dormers into a choppy topography of cresting gables.
The idea of an "empty body" was Teshigawara's point of departure for developing his own style of movement, for which the idea of air – both as space and breath – became central.
The vast literature on environmental medicine also offers a point of departure for developing curriculum for eco-medical literacy, including in developing countries.
Some medical education schools have already established courses that offer a point of departure for developing education techniques for a climate-changing world.
